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Jeff Wisnia

wrote:

Also,
I have ticked the neck off of a arcade picture tube and there was no
"Explosion", simply a loud continual hissing letting me know that I
ruined a picture tube beyond repair..

Around 1952 my after school job was working for a radio and TV shop in
San Francisco owned by a guy named Bud Fiske. (So, how come I can pull
that guy's name up out of my memory so easily and I sometimes can't
remember to zip my fly up 5 seconds after emptying my bladder?)

Anyway, those were the days of big console TV sets in folk's living
rooms, and if they needed more fixing than could be accomplished by my
replacing some weak or dead vacuum tubes in situ, I'd have to pull the
chassis, which often had the CRT mounted to it, and schlep the whole
thing to the shop in my car.

On one occassion I managed to lose my grip on a 19" chassis/CRT and
watch in horror as it tumbled all the way down a flight of stairs with
not unexpected results.

Another time I was carrying a big CRT face down on the back seat of my
car (No seat belts in cars back then to tie it down with.) and had to
stop short. The tube tipped off the seat, its neck hit the front
seatback and bust off with a much bigger sound than just a "hiss".

Why I wasn't fired I'll never know. There are angels who look after teen
agers most of the time....I learned to be more careful in later years.

Thanks for the mammaries....

Jeff

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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
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